Hello everyone!
I'm an 18-year old pupil from the city of Augsburg in Germany, and hope to graduate from Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium in 2005/6. You can speak to me in English or German. I've started playing Go in August 2002 on Yahoo Go Servers, but soon moved on to KiseidoGoServer because of its great teaching functions and comfortable handling, but mostly because of many friends of mine (some of them also have SL pages Martin Jelonek, Michael Drewing) who are playing there day in and day out. My Nickname there is "Woodstock".
It was also one of them who brought me to Hikaru no Go and the game when I finally wanted to play myself.
I am really addicted right now and I enjoy going to the only Go Club in my hometown. I should be around German 1-kyu at the moment and I'd like to reach Shodan within this year. The last Go Tournament I participated in was Göppinger Go Turnier. I had 4 wins and 1 loss as 1-kyu which made me 7th all in all.
Recently I was participating in the German Insei Program run by Franz-Josef Dickhut and Benjamin Teuber. It's really fun and yet I feel my skills improving slightly. Btw I got 2nd place in the Insei Leage II with 6 wins and 1 loss.
Other hobbies besides Go are mostly music, Anime, Manga, hanging out with friends (be it Internet or real life), cinema and lots of other stuff.
- I'll play every free game against an opponent (adequate handicap if needed).
- Same with ranked games, but I prefer opponents 3 grades ± my rating.
- I won't play with white against an opponent who is too selfish to teach others. Those are marked with a [~] sign.
- No undo in ranked games, except for obvious misclick (stand by your mistakes and don't ruin your style by undoing moves all the time!).
- No addtime, except you were afk and I have enough time to finish the game afterwards.
- Though I am online I might be afk or just have no time/intension to play, so leave a msg but don't always expect an answer.
- I won't ever leave a game for purpose. If I seem to do so, just wait. But if I don't appear within 10 minutes, leave a msg and I guarantee to continue afterwards.